MR. AND MRS. KABAL’S THEATRE

Long before IMMORAL TALES and THE BEAST, controversial Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk first made his name with this dazzlingly original “feature-length animated film for mature adults.” A series of loosely connected vignettes structured much like a vaudeville show, MR. AND MRS. KABAL’S THEATRE is about a grotesquely mismatched but strangely loving couple who perform absurd, surreal, and sometimes cruel acts in a desert full of strange flora and fauna. Made with a tiny production team at a time when animated features were even scarcer than they are now, MR. AND MRS. KABAL’S THEATRE is the polar opposite of a Disney film, with angular, mostly monochromatic graphics that bring the Kabals’ universe to startlingly vivid life.